Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam records.

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Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam records.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434872044

This collection includes Committee administrative records, newspaper clippings on Committee activities, a large collection of newspaper clippings on individual prisoners of war as well as clippings with general information on POWs; material about trips of Committee organizers and supporters to Vietnam; interview transcripts; reference files; photographs; and records on individual POWs, including Committee correspondence with family members (these files are restricted)

19 linear ft.

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7524578

Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Weiss, Cora, 1934-

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Cora Weiss; activist in peace, anti-nuclear and other social justice movements; supporter of the United Nations; early member of Women Strike for Peace, serving on the National Board of WSP from 1961-1973; leader in the anti-Vietnam war movement in the United States: involved with organization of demonstrations, including the largest on November 15, 1969 in Washington, DC; Co-Chair and Director of the Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in Vietnam; organized the exchange of...

Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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Falk, Richard A.

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Epithet: Professor of International Studies Princeton University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000094 ...

Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam,

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The Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam was founded in 1969. Cora Weiss was the co-chair and director of the organization from 1969-1972. The Committee organized the exchange of letters and packages between families of prisoners of war in Vietnam and the POWs themselves. This exchange often revealed the names of those men still alive and imprisoned in North Vietnam, which the U.S. government had refused to make public. The Committee played a significant rol...

Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006

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Clergyman. From the description of Reminiscences of William S. Coffin, Jr. : oral history, 1989. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122452011 Epithet: Reverend chaplain Yale University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000080 William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was born June 1, 1924, in New York City. He attended Deerfield Academy and Phillips Academy Andover b...